Samsung’s reliance on Qualcomm for high-end chipsets has grown significantly over the past few years. The foldable phones have remained Snapdragon-only while the Galaxy S23 series also exclusively used the Qualcomm chipset. Samsung only brought back the Exynos with this year’s Galaxy S24 lineup, even as Snapdragon variants exist in certain markets. Chipsets are one […]
Read MoreBest Buy’s President’s Day sale ends on Monday, so you have the weekend to look over offers. The retailer sells everything from fridges to electric scooters, but as usual we focused on mobile offers. The Samsung Galaxy S23 FE is $50 off. Only 128GB units are available in new condition, though there are also 256GB […]
Read MoreA couple of new independent comparison videos featuring the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S24+ have emerged, and they’re both trying to determine if there’s a difference between Exynos 2400 and Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 variants. More accurately, they’re trying to figure out how big of a difference there is between the two chips. Some discrepancies […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Diablo 4 Season 3 launched on January 23, and the Season of the Construct hasn’t been received well. Players are criticizing the broken story quest and trap mechanics in the game, as well as the underwhelming pet theme. Developers have responded that they are taking the feedback seriously and have […]
Read MoreFor Gastón Paladini, pork is a family affair. In 1923, his great-grandfather Don Juan Paladini moved from Italy to Santa Fe, Argentina, where he started putting a South American twist on classic Italian sausage recipes. Eventually, Don Juan’s company became one of Argentina’s largest meat producers. It still bears the family name: Paladini. But in […]
Read MoreQuick menu Audeze is on a mission to marry its audiophile legacy to the expanding gaming market, and the Maxwell wireless headset is the company’s latest attempt to do so. With the Maxwell, Audeze has crafted one of the best-sounding and most premium wireless gaming headsets on the market that — on paper, at least […]
Read MoreIn September, Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink announced the much-anticipated news that it would start recruiting volunteers for a clinical trial to test its device. Known as a brain-computer interface, or BCI, it collects electrical activity from neurons and interprets those signals into commands to control an external device. While Musk has said he ultimately […]
Read MoreWhether you’re working in the IT industry or playing PC games, there comes a time when you must upgrade your PC’s hard drive so you can store more files. One of the finest examples of these is Seagate’s Exos internal hard drive, which is capable of housing 20TB of data files and programs. Unfortunately, this […]
Read MoreThe original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Science routinely puts forward theories, then batters them with data till only one is left standing. In the fledgling science of consciousness, a dominant theory has yet to emerge. More than 20 are still taken seriously. It’s not for want of data. Ever since Francis […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Microsoft released Windows 11 Preview Build 22635.2486 to Insiders in the Beta Channel today. The update does not include any new features, but it does have a few changes that are rolling out to Insiders slowly. Even those changes are relatively small, such as Xbox Game Bar now showing up […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know A Starfield player has encountered a bug that allowed them to fly the entirety of New Atlantis, the first city visited after the game’s tutorial, into space. Despite attempts to “return it” by grav jumping or landing on planets, the city stubbornly followed the player everywhere. Reloading a save appears […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Baldur’s Gate 3 released on PC at the beginning of August and has since also come to PS5. This Dungeons and Dragons RPG has seen major success far above what Larian Studios expected for it. A Reddit user has taken the key artwork for the game and manipulated it to […]
Read MoreFor its part, India next plans to partner with Japan on the Lunar Polar Exploration rover, or Lupex, which could launch as early as 2026 and will examine water deposits near the south pole. The US and China have been active on and around the moon for years. NASA and its international and commercial partners […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know Microsoft is currently locked in a battle with the FTC in court over its plan to acquire Activision Blizzard King (ABK) for $69b. During an ongoing hearing, Activision CEO Bobby Kotick has stated that he’s not interested in putting any of the publisher’s games on “multi-game subscription services” like Xbox […]
Read MoreMicrosoft recently launched an ad campaign for its GPT-powered chatbot. The short ads are a straightforward way to illustrate the types of questions and prompts you can give to Bing Chat, but I was curious how the tool performed when using the prompts from the videos. I typed each of the prompts from the ads […]
Read MoreBecause it penetrates the tissue, the Utah array can cause inflammation and scarring around the implantation site, which leads to a decline in signal quality over time. And signal quality is important because it affects how well the BCI performs. No one actually knows how long Utah arrays can last in the brain; so far […]
Read MoreBecause it penetrates the tissue, the Utah array can cause inflammation and scarring around the implantation site, which leads to a decline in signal quality over time. And signal quality is important because it affects how well the BCI performs. No one actually knows how long Utah arrays can last in the brain; so far […]
Read MoreSamsung’s Exynos chips may soon face another competitor. The British semiconductor company Arm is reportedly prototyping its own chipset (or multiple ones), which would compete with Samsung’s Exynos as well as Qualcomm and MediaTek, putting Arm in an awkward position as a chip designer but also in a position to shake the semiconductor industry to […]
Read MoreWhat you need to know The latest in a long line of fun things emerging that Bing Chat has done is to imagine itself as a human girl. It then used the built-in Bing Image Creator to sketch what she imagines she’d look like. This ties into a previous codename, Sydney, Microsoft has used for […]
Read MoreHow wide is too wide? That’s a silly question, LG thought in 2009 when it released the LG BL40 New Chocolate. With a 4” display of cinematic 21:9 aspect ratio, this phone was unique for its time – at that point a typical phone had a 4:3 or 3:2 display, while media-focused devices went 16:9 […]
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